OMG Voodoo thing

[old.Pure Science]

I have just read....oh im sorry ive just cum...just read about the Voodoo5 6000...sorry ive just cum again. Anybody know how much one of these is going to cost.

Im willing to sell my family if i have to

 

[xane]

About $599 according to the Register article I saw.

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[old.memski]

OMG it needs its own power supply!

/checks for spare plug sockets

 

[mookie]

and you'll be needing a full tower case too...

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[old.Pure Science]

When will i be able to get my hands on a Voodoo 5 6000 in the UK?

 

[old.TUG]

Prob about june knowing our luck... mind u 599 dollars = 370 quid... can get a PC fer dat much!

 

[old.Maverick]

Why would you want to?

What 3DFX don't tell you:

It has 128mb of RAM but this _must_ be divided equally for each chip. In effect it has 32mb of tetxture memory.

It won't be out till late March. by this time nVidia and S3 will be launching new cards.

Software must be specially written to support T-Buffer effects. At the moment no developer is working on support for it.

When using T-Buffer effects the card only has a fillrate of around 366 MegaPixels. That's about the same as a TNT2u.

It may be an AGP card but it can't use the AGP bus for texturing. This means you're going to see lots and lots of texture caching in upcoming games like Unreal Tournie are heavy on textures.

When doing Anti-Aliasing it renders twice the amount of pixels which again cuts it's fill rate, this time to around 720 MPixels which is a heck of a lot, but will only make a difference in really high res.


Basically the V4/V5 cards are Voodoo3's, with all the stuff that 6 months ago 3DFX told people they didn't need for games. 32-bit color, large textures etc. The v5 5000/6000 are just multiple v3 chips stuck on the same card with these improvments.


Sorry, but 3DFX have lost it :/ Buy a nVidia or S3 card. Hardware T&L is the future.

// maverick

 

[old.TUG]

Yea maybe when they drop to a reasonable price m8... GeForces with SDRAM are ok but for proper performance id only go DDR -> 220 quid.

I think not - waaaaaay too expansive.